Mark Schonewille wrote: "I think there are more people on this list who have already invented their own systems to save preferecnes, make installers, get the versioning right etc.
I don't expect RunRev Ltd to create a general-purpose solution for each of the issues in your list, because everybody will need something slightly different. We will probably all end up creating our own systems anyway." Now what I am going to write will be, I hope, contentious and stimulate a lot of CONSTRUCTIVE comment: I don't like being spoon-fed, and have spent my life in Education trying to wean both kids and adult learners off a dependency on spoon-feeding. I believe that when we were made/born we came with reasonably efficient brains - and those brains are to be used. What I like about Runtime Revolution consists of both its capabilities and what it does not offer prepackaged; or, let me draw a parallel with English (a language, as a Scot, I have made my living from for many years); RR supplies the grammar, the syntax and the vocabulary; but, thank God, it does not supply the sentences; that is to say, it allows us an awful lot of freedom. This has been demonstrated time and time again on this Use-List, where many people have come up with many solutions to a single problem - this is fantastic. I, for one, have never had an urge to live in a totalitarian state (especially as I live and work in a country that used to be a totalitarian state, and is still, 20 years later, suffering, considerably, from the psychological aftermath), in fact one of the reasons I like life in Bulgaria rather than Scotland is that society is not becoming increasingly rule-bound. Nobody can accuse Runtime Revolution of being rule-bound! And, ultimately it is psychologically healthier for us to retrace parts of inventing the wheel (hence the collection of slide-rules down in my school, which I force on my pupils for 1 day a year). sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
